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U.S. Court Overrules Conviction Of Core Official -V . m m ,> | | BH| bm H H "' ' VII ■■ Hill ■■ H■ ■ ■■■ HH | ■ ■ ■■ ,■ ■ ■ ■■■ ■ ■ ■ F TTVI i II /.". ®-' . ••' i— ; ■ • " "" Seeks Tofal | Desegregation Charlotte System . CHARLOrnp— The NAACP Le gal Defense Fund ipoved tljis Week to end segregation in Nortji Carolina'* largest school district. A complaint has been filed for 2& Negro children asking the United States District Court to enjoin the Charlotte-Mecklehbarjg Board of Education from corj tiiuing its policy of discriminah ti»f against Negroes. An estimated 73,123 pupils are enrolled in this district, 20,035 of which are Negroes. Legal Defense Fund Attorney J. LeVonn* Chambers of Charlotte, pointed out that a desegregation pttn presently followed by the Board has resulted in over 800 Negroes being assigned to white schools. However, the plan per mits white children in such dese gregated schools to obt?in trans fers. Naming the Board of Education as defendant, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund complaint contends that: • That the "defendant main tain school zone lines . r • which have been drawn on a racial ba sis . . . limiting racial mixing of student*." • That the defendant permits "tlrpse students who reside in an integrated school district to trans their color reside ... in clear violation of the Constitution." • That the Board of Education "nakes assignment of principals, teachers and other professional personnel on the basis of race and color.". 'Upgroes "are assigned to schools reserved for Negro stu dents" and "to schools re served for white Students." The plaintiffs are represented by NAACP Legal Defense Fund Attorneys Conrad O. Pearson and J. LeVonne Chambers, both of North Carolina, and Derrick A. See FUND, 4A Kf ■ iy;V , J I BULLOCK Mass. Atty. To Deliver Address At N. C. College Matthew Bullock., a Boston at torney, will be the mam speake. at the local observance ot Worli Religion Day at 5:00 P.M., iSun day, January 31, in the confer ence room o! the Education Build ing at North Carolina ColltgL Observed annually by Baha'is in the taore Ulan 200 countries and territories where they reside commemorations in the United States will be held in 1,600 com munities, focusing upon" the theme "Oneness in Religion." The pub lie is invited. C The speaker for the Durham observance is a former professor at Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia and a former dean of Alabama A.' and M. College, Nor mal, Alabama. A member of the Federal Bar, Bullock has served as special assistant attorney gen eral, assistant to the commissioner of correction, chairman of the Parole Board and the Advisory Board of Pardons of Massachu setts; and administrator of the See ATTORNEY, 4A Ote €ar§ii|a @me& __ VOLUME 42—No. 4 DURHAM, N. C.—SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1965 . PRICE: IS CeoU VOLUME 42— No. 5 Judge Bans Segregated Schools In Springfield, Massachusetts fjgMfl m MRS. GANT Last Rites Held For Mrs. M. Gant OXFORD Funeral services were held Thursday for Mrs. Mary W. Gant, guidance counselor at Mary Potter High School, at First Baptist Church, with the Rev. L. H. Penn, pastor of Bethel AME Church, Greensboro, in charge. The Rev. C. A. Stroud delivered the eulogy. Mrs. Gant, who died Jan. 16, was the wife of Dr. G. S. Gant, pre siding elder of the Greensboro District of the AME Church. She passed at Shaw Hospital following an acute illness. A native of Rocky Mount where she attended Booker T. Washing ton High School, Mrs. Gant earn ed the B.S. degree at Shaw Uni versity and the M.A. degree from Atlanta University. She has done post graduate study at Duke Uni versity, the University of Colora do, North Carolina College, and the University of North Carolina. She was active in civic, religious, and educational organizations, and before joining the Pctter school faculty had worked in schools at Reidsville, Roxboro, and Toler. Formerly an elementary school supervisor in Oxford, she was director of Christian Education and an ordained elder of the Western North Carolina Confer ence of the AME Church, presi dent of District 111 and a member of the board of directors of the North Carolina Congress of Col ored Parents and Teachers. Mrs. Gant was secretary of the Shaw University National Alumni Association, president of the Na ture Lovers Garden Club, and a former basileus of Phi Zeta Chap ter, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority. She was a life member of the Na tional Education Association, a member of the N. C. Teachers Association, and past president of the Granville County Teachers Association. A long-time supporter of South eastern Business College in Dur ham, she was scheduled to be come the first -.woman member of the institution's board of trustees. The college's building committee has announced that a new dormi tory, on which construction is to begin this year, will be called the Mary Wimberly Gant Hall, and the scholarship committee has indicated that a Mary Wimberly Gant Scholarship Fund will be established for Granville County See MRS. CANT, 4A North Carolina College President Is Named to ACE Commission North Carolina College Presi dent Samuel P. Massie was ap pointed recently by President gan Wilson of /the American Council on Education to a three year term as a member of the Commission on Academic Affairs. The Commission, which has a three-fold area of concern (the college student, the 'faculty, and the instructional program) has as its purpose the study of these basic and perennial elements of higher education in the light of changing economic and social conditions. It 'will also suggest means by, which new educational issues may be more satisfactorily resolved,; and will p.rovi}e leader ship at the national level that, will enable individual insitutions to improve their programs of study. President William C. Friday of the University of North Carolina NEA Approves Pres. Johnson Plan For Support Of Education Dr. Marshall Shepard to Speak at White Rock Church Sun. Morning Oxford born Marshal Shepard, famed Philadelphia pastor and civic leader, will be guest preach er at White Rock Church's 11:00 a.m. services Sunday in a special retirement tribute to Dr. Miles Mark Fisher. The occasion will mark a day long celebration in honor of Dr. Fisher who has just completed 31 years of dedicated ministry at White Rock. W. J. Kennedy., Jr., chairman of the Greater White Rock Com mittee, will preside. Mrs. Marian Henry will present a special tri bute to Dr. Fisher and A. T. Spaulding will introduce Dr. Shep ard. A special committee headed by Mrs. Virginia Alston has made elaborate plans for a public re ception for the Fisher family in the church from 7 to 9 Sunday evening'. Dr. Shepard is a graduate of Virginia Union University and the Pendle Hill Quaker Graduate Center of Wallingfbrd, Pa. After serving as assistant pastor at New York's noted Abyssinia Baptist Church from 1923 to 1926, Dr. Shepard moved to Philadel phia \vhere he became pastor of Olivet Tabernacle Baptist Church. He has been pastor of Olivet con tinuously since that time. He was elected to the Pennsyl vania Legislature in 1934, 1936, and 1940. The Governor of the Commonwealth cited him for meriterious service in 1941. In September, 1944, Dr. Shep ard was appointed Recorder of Deeds in Washington, D. C. He was elected Recorder of Deeds for Philadelphia in November, 1951. '• ; Dr. Shepard was first alerted * B"' • •••*•' 5 I i VMHVJBL. DR. MASSIE is currently chairman of the ACE, )'ne of the nation's major educa tional associations. ft? * * ? DR. SHEPARD councilman at large in Philadel phia in 1955. He was reelected in 1959 and 1963. Dr, Fisher is popularly regard ed as one of the nation's ten top ministers. His sermons have been widely reprinted and translated into several languages. A noted pastor and educator, Dr. Fisher has also achieved fame as author of a book, Negro Slave Songs in the United States. Sunday's celebration pays tri bute to his more than 30 years service to the Durham community. A graduate of Morehouse Col lege and Northern Baptist Semi nary in Chicago, Dr. Fisher in 1948 earned the Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago. Pastor Fisher is credited with introducing modern recreation to the City of Durham. His efforts at White Rock are believed to have had widespread influence on the Sec DR. SHEPARD, 4A SPRINGFIELD, Mass. The Springfield School Committee has been ordered by U. S. District Judge George C. Sweeney "to eli minate to the fullest extent pos sible racial concentration in its elementary and junior high schools.'' The opinion, handed down on Jan. 11 in response to a suit filed in behalf of Negro parents and children by attorneys of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People, gave the School Committee until April 30 to submit a desegregation plan "•within the framework of effect ive educational procedures, aS guaranteed by the equal protect' ion clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution." The court stated that "the ques tion is whether there is a consti tutional duty to provide equal educational opportunities for all swered tpe question affirmatively in the context of coerced segre gation, the constitutional fact— the inadequacy of segregated edu. cation—is the same in this case." Approximately 17 per cent of See JUDGE, 4A WASHINGTON, D. C. lmm ediate and enthusiastic approval of President Johnson's proposal to increase federal support of pub lic education by more than $1 billion a year was voted this week by the National Education Association. A spokesman for the 903.000- organization of school teachers and administrators, largest pro fessional organization in the na tion, said that the President's mesasge to Congress was "one of the strongest . commitments to meeting the urgent needs of the public schools ever to come from the White House. Robert E. McKay, chairman of the NEA's Legislative Commission, added that the Administration's proposal undoubtedly would have the support of all groups dedi cated to excellence in education. The NEA Legislative Commission has been in session here the last two days. McKaje? who is also assistant executive secretary of the Cali* fornia Teachers Association, said that President Johnson, in his message, had forthrightly faced up to the for assumption by the Federal government of its rightful role* s in the support of the public schools. "ITie President has given the broad outlines of a legislative pro posal designed to help meet the educational requirements of our society," said McKay. "In its ap proach and emphasis, the psdifranii has the vyhotehearted supplflw of, the National Educatiort AswWJi tion," he added. "Major financial support will be given by the President's plan where it is most needed at the. elementary and secondary levels, with special emphasis in areas of low economic ability and de prived cultural, opportunity," the foEA Legislative chairman ex plained. "The approach described in the Set NEA. 4A MM vlmk I l-«*> « Jwt wjr £ !^B B -SE ■ It? • H ; ':' & 111 K mMr- .;> ■mmXm&WM COEDS MAKE A DIFFERENCE!— Wast Point Cadet Joseph B. An derson Jr. sesms to really relish Hie coeducational atmosphere at North Carolina College as he re laxes with two students during a recent visit to the campus. Free Speech, Upheld In C WASHINGTON— \ A Louisiana court conviction of the Rev. B. Elton Cox, on charges growing out of a civil rights demonstra tion in December, 1961, was over ruled Monday by the Supreme Court. Cox, who was found guilty of two charges, was sentenced to 9 months and S7OO in fines for breach of peace and obstructing the sidewalk near the Baton Rouge courthouse. For illegally demonstrating in front of the courthouse he 'was sentenced to one year in jail and $5,000. Justice Arthur K. Goldberg, who wrote the majority opinions in the t'A-o cases, said the meetihg ofi.itliß.xivofe- than; ljiOUi led by Cox, "from the beginning until its disposal by tear gas was orderly and not riotous." He said this point of view was "conformed by a film of events taken by a television news photo grapher, whicll was offered in evidence as a state exhibit." Ac- District Boy Scout Official Resigns Post for Similar Post in Chicago Funeral Held for Dr. S. Jas. Gray In Wilmington WILMINGTON Dr. Samuel James Gray died at his residence, Wilmington, 719 South Eleventh Street Sunday evening, January 17. Dr. Gray had practicel in Wil jnlngton since 1938. He was one qf the iitegants successful in open ing the doors of the James E. Walker Hospital to Negro physi cians and their patients. He is survived by his wife, t¥e former Gwendolyn Stinson of Cot ton Plant, Arkansas and five chil dren, Rosalind, Arthur, Diana Charmalne and Antoinette Gray. One brother, Dr. Raphael Gray -who is a physician practicing in Jamaica, West Indies, and a sister, Mrs. Hulda MrLaurin of Jamaira. New York. 1 Funeral services will be held from the St. Thomas Catholic Church at' 11:00 a.m., Thursday, January 21. The body will be flovvn, in the company of Mrs. McLaurin, on Thursday to Jamai : ca, New York, tor final burial. Members of the Old North State Medical Society will be pallbear ers. Dr. Leroy R. Swift of Dur , ham will b» ont of them. The coeds are Jean Cheek, left, | a senior English major from Hali fax; and Ediflh Lewis, a sophomore English major from Henderson. Anderson, a na'.ive of Topeka, Kansas, is a first ctassmari (sen- : ior) at the Academy. He accom-1 9 >i REVEREND COX cording to the justice, the film "reveals that the students, though they undoubtedly cheered and clapped, w e«r e well behaved throughout." The Louisiana law, which Cox See REV. COX 4A RALEIGH—The Reverend D- N- Howard, Sr. districet Scout exe cutive, over 12 years in the Oc coneechee Council, and pastor of the Tupper Memorial Baptist Church for two years has resigned the posts to"" take ■ similar pos itions in Chicago, Illinois. According to Wallace Wood, council Scout executive, Mr. Ho •k ward has rendered invaluable ser vie to Scouting during his stay in Raleigh. "More than 6,000 boys have come into the program of Scouting under ' his leadership", said Wood. Mr. Wood also said that Ho ward has organized more than 70 Scouting units which leads most service areas in the council. The Reverend Mr. Howard has had 28 years of experience in Scouting, holding positions in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Golds boro before coming to Raleigh in 1952. While at The Tupper Memorial Baptist Church, according to Mel vin Davis, chairman of the Deacon Board, much has been done. The membership and weekly offering have increased considerably. A portion of the church's sanctuary has been completed, along with a greater participation of members in church. activities. * The Howards wjl! take up their new duties oh February Ist. The Reverend Mr. Howard is a 1949 graduate of Knoxville Col- Set OFFICER, 4A panied West Point Commandant Maj. Gen. James B. Lampert on the NCC visit and followed an assembly speech by the funeral with comment son student life at West Point. Interest In City Election for 1965 Rising Steadily Local political observers have already begun speculation on the 1965 municipal election at which a jnayor, three aldermen-at-large and on? feach frorn three different wards will be voted on. The final date for persons fil ing as carivliiUjtes will he April 16 at 6 p.m.' with the primary, if any, slated for May 1. The general election, which is to be non partisan, will be held May 15 from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 P.M. •It iis not yet known it Mayor R. Wensell Grabarek will be a candidate for re-election. Efforts by the Carolina TCimes to reach f\im before press time for com ment on his plans were unsuccess ful. 5 Counties to Hold NAACP Rally Jan. 24 The NAACP Branches and other civic organization, of Craven, Carteret, Pamlico, Jones and On slow Counties will hold a com bined meeting at St. Pe»ers AME Zion Church, New Bern, on Sun day night, January 24, at 8 p.m. The implementation of title two, three, four and six of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill will be the topics of discussion. Attorney J. Levonne Chambers, Chairman of the Legal Redress Committee for the NAACP Branch es in North Carolina -#ill be the guest speaker. Rev. B. B. Felder, school integration specialist will also appear on the program. A panel of lawyers, experts in the field of Civil Rights, will be on hand to answer questions re garding the stated titles of the Civil. Rights Bill. NEW HOPE UNION MEETING TO BE HELD JAN. 30-31 Union meeting of the New Hope , Missionary Baptist Association will be held January 30-31, 1965 'at the Second Baptist Church in get NEW HOPI, 4A ■ t, • iTijfjm,
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